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Now everyone is an insider!
In order to provide an open forum for ALL of the museum's collection and activities, the Paper + People blog is being renamed SCMA Insider. With its expanded focus, SCMA Insider will act as a go-to place for sharing information on the diverse collections and many voices and visions that shape SCMA.
If you want to contribute to the blog, please contact the Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, Shanice Bailey, at email@example.com.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
TASS Window #850
In 1941 a group of Soviet writers and artists founded the TASS News Agency to create large-scale war-themed propaganda posters called "TASS Windows." Over the next four years, the studio would create over 1,240 designs executed as multi-paneled stenciled screenprints. These posters were hung in windows across the Soviet Union, bringing fresh (and slanted) news and views of the Eastern front during World War II. Many of these posters were also sent to the US and Great Britain by the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), which was designed to build support for the war, but they were little studied (with few resources in English) until the exhibition Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945 mounted by the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. This exhibition presented new scholarship in English on this fascinating aspect of Soviet poster production. TASS posters were designed to be eye-catching and memorable, using humorous caricatures, painterly hand-cut stencils, and saturated colors.
Pyshki i Shiski (Pastry and Bruises) TASS Window #850 was designed by three artists known collectively as "Kukryniksy" (Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiri Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov).
This poster was purchased for the SCMA collection in the wake of the exhibition Godless Communists: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda which focused on a little-known group of Soviet anti-religious posters which entered the collection in 1968. The exhibition also expanded our understanding of how propaganda posters can provide an unusually rich field for interdisciplinary investigation.
The image in Pyshki I Shiski is a graphic rendering of a section of a speech delivered by Josef Stalin on November 6, 1943, in which he proclaimed:
"Entering the war, the members of Hitler's bloc counted on a rapid victory. They divided the spoils in advance: who would get the pies and pastries, and who gets the bumps and bruises. Understandably, the bruises and the bumps were intended for their enemies, and the pies and pastries for themselves.
[Inscribed on the pastries in the picture are: "The Caucasus; Africa; Transylvania, the Kuban'; Moscow"]
But now it is clear that Germany and her lackeys will not get the pies and pastries; instead, they will have to divide the bumps and the bruises among themselves."
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Rembrandt's The Three Crosses
Drypoint prints are made by using an etching needle—a metal tool with a fine tip—to create incisions directly on a copper plate. When you etch the lines into the plate, the needle pulls up a fine burr of copper around the lines. Because of the burr, a drypoint line holds more ink than an etched or engraved line. It prints darkly and thickly, creating velvety black textures, deep shadows, and dramatic tonal variation.
Drypoint lines are more fragile than etching or engraving lines. They produce fewer impressions, because the burr wears down easily. This explains why Rembrandt's marvelous drypoint print The Three Crosses exists in five states. The states are different versions of the same print; each state represents changes made to the copper plate because the burr had worn down and the plate needed to be touched up. Print lovers are obsessed with the little alterations you can find between different states of the same print. What distinguishes The Three Crosses is that the differences between the third and fourth states are dramatic. Rembrandt completely re-invents the print, not just compositionally, but tonally: the meaning changes.
Take a look at our fourth state of The Three Crosses:
Now compare it to this image of the third state.
In the fourth state, Rembrandt introduces new figures—two mounted soldiers to the left of the cross—and re-draws the group at the right, including St. John and Mary. The figure of the centurion changes, too. In early states, he kneels before Christ; in late states he is mounted on a horse. The second thief on the cross is obscured because Rembrandt has etched over the right side of the plate, creating a deep ominous shadow over the scene. The velveteen depth and intensity of those black lines comes from the amazing use of drypoint.
The story the print depicts is the crucifixion of Christ alongside two thieves (in the print, Christ is in the center, with one thief on each side). The crucifixion is ultimately a tale of redemption: Christ's sacrifice brings about the salvation of humankind. But the fourth state is so dark and bleak, it casts doubt upon the redemption narrative. The looming shadow that threatens to engulf the whole scene, the rearing horse, the obscurity of the figures, and the emphasis on Christ's suffering transforms The Three Crosses from an image of pathos and sacrifice to one of darkness, doubt and chaos.
P. Miller - 22/02/2016
The Three CrossesCan the fourth state be seen as Rembrandt's criticism of the Catholic Church?
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Shared Inspiration: About the Collectors
This blog post was written in conjunction with the exhibition Shared Inspiration: The David R. and Muriel Kohn Pokross Collection, on view at the Smith College Museum of Art through July 29.
David R. Pokross (1906 – 2003)
David Ralph Pokross was a lawyer, mentor, community leader, art collector, avid tennis player, and family man. He was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, and was the first graduate of his high school to enter Harvard College, from which he graduated magna cum laude, majoring in French literature, in 1927. He went on to earn a degree from the Harvard Law School in 1930, having financed his entire education on his own.
In 1939, David was named a partner at the prominent Boston firm, Peabody, Brown, Rowley & Storey (now Nixon Peabody), where he practiced law for 70 years, including chairing the firm's Executive Committee. He was regarded by many as a "lawyer's lawyer," whose colleagues sought out for advice. Although he practiced labor law, securities, corporate law, estate planning, and litigation, he was particularly known for his public utility work, also serving as a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of Northeast Utilities, and for his role as lawyer to the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Beloved as a mentor to younger lawyers, he served as counsel to the firm until six months before his death.
David's lifelong philanthropic work revealed his deeply-rooted commitment to social justice. A community leader of unbounded energy, he devoted countless hours to numerous non-profit and charitable organizations in Boston. He held leadership positions in many organizations including serving as president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, director of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, board member of The Boston Foundation (where he established a special fund for children in need), overseer of The Boston Symphony Orchestra, president of the American Jewish Historical Society, and trustee of the Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School. David also served as the chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University where a chair in law and social policy was endowed in his name. Among numerous honors that he received, David was the first recipient of The Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.
Self-taught in his artistic interests, David carefully studied works of art and artists before making a purchase, and sought the advice of professionals in the art world. He and Muriel were avid travelers, and they connected with the art world wherever they went. In his memoir, David described how they discovered new artists:
"We walk around a museum, and then I will ask if a director or an assistant director is available. I would say, 'I don't own any art of local painters. If you will name five (and I always said five) young painters who have been recognized in your museum but who have not become top artists, I would like to look at their art and perhaps buy some of it.'
I never had a negative response from a director, and so we would receive recommendations."
Over years of traveling and collecting, David and Muriel developed friendships with museum directors and curators, such as Carl Belz, formerly director of Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum, and the artists they patronized, among them William T. Wiley, Gregory Gillespie, William Beckman, Joseph Floch and Barnet Rubenstein. According to their daughter, Joan, "My parents would have been delighted that the heart of their collection now resides in the Smith College Museum of Art as The Pokross Collection."
Muriel Kohn Pokross (1913 – 2011)
Muriel Kohn Pokross, social worker, community leader and art collector, who was also devoted to her family, was born in Boston. She was educated at the Girl's Latin School and Smith College, where she graduated in 1934 with a degree in French Literature. Reflecting on her years at Smith, Muriel cited her junior year in France as her most valuable college experience. "A whole world opened up," she recalled.
After raising three children—Joan P. Curhan, William R. Pokross, and David R. Pokross, Jr.—Muriel returned to her academic pursuits. She received a master's degree in Education at Boston University, with a major in rehabilitation counseling. Muriel went on to spend the next 25 years as a social worker with the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing, aiding hearing-impaired children and adults, and teaching nurses, teachers, parents and caregivers how to communicate with the hearing-impaired. She was instrumental in persuading Channel 2, Boston's public TV station, to caption their programming for the hearing-impaired, an unprecedented practice for public television at the time.
The Pokross home was always open to their many friends, whom Muriel entertained with her lively conversation and home-cooked meals. According to Muriel, "We particularly enjoyed and helped many European doctors (especially psychoanalysts), lawyers and teachers, whom David helped bring to the U.S., to settle in and begin new lives after immigrating to Boston in the late 1930's and early 1940s." In the late 1930's, David had prepared affidavits to help Jews from Vienna to escape the Nazis. Among the people he helped to immigrate to the United States was the artist Joseph Floch, from whom David and Muriel purchased a number of works, including a portrait painted of Muriel.
Muriel was an active community leader, serving as a volunteer, committee member and trustee for charitable organizations and non-profit agencies in the Boston area. These included the Board of Overseers of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and the Dean's Leadership Council and Nutrition Round Table at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Muriel also held leadership roles at Smith College, serving as the Chair of Planned Giving and Alumnae Representative for the class of 1934 for almost twenty years. She remained active in the Belmont Smith Club throughout the years, serving as President in 1950. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, her family established the Muriel Kohn Pokross 1934 Kew Garden Travel/Internship Fund at the Botanic Garden of Smith College in her honor. This fund sends two students each year for ten weeks of botanical research with scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England.
Muriel and David's marriage, lasting 67 years until David's death in 2003, was a truly loving partnership. In addition to three children, they had four grandchildren: Jenifer Curhan Panner, Jared Curhan, and Benjamin and Samuel Pokross; as well as seven great grandchildren: Samuel, Elizabeth, Harry, David, and William Panner, and Hannah and Joshua Curhan.
Muriel Kohn Pokross at her 75th Smith College reunion.


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Hugh Hefner in 2009: "The bunny is back" and ready to party in Vegas
Interviewed by Aleza Freeman
Vegas.com for L.A. Times, January 25, 2009—The Palms Las Vegas is a second home for ultimate bachelor Hugh Hefner. A partnership between the Palms and Playboy Enterprises led to the 2006 opening of the first Playboy Club in 20 years, as well as the 9,000 square foot Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, atop The Palms Fantasy Tower. While Hef admits that Playboy Enterprises was a victim of the politically correct American climate during the '80s and early '90s, now, he declares, "The bunny is back." …
Q: When you started out in Chicago in the '50s, did you ever envision that the Playboy logo would be emblazoned on a Las Vegas hotel and that the bunnies would be dealing cards and serving drinks to Las Vegas visitors?
Well nothing that came to pass is something that I could have imagined. When I started the magazine, I didn't put a date on the first issue, because I wasn't
sure there would be a second — I didn't have any money. So what came to pass thereafter, that it so influenced society, that it became a brand known globally, that it turned into all of these different kinds of things from Playboy Clubs to television shows, to casinos — I could not have imagined. I was kid who dreamt impossible dreams, but I could not have imagined what lay ahead for me.
I don't think that it's a good line that wins the heart of a woman. I think it is listening, paying attention to what's going on — and a good sense of humor helps.
How has Las Vegas changed since your first trip here?
Vegas was a very different town back then. A lot of the members of the Rat Pack were personal friends of mine. I saw them on more than one occasion. I remember I took a trip to San Francisco to see Lenny Bruce who I had just heard about, and that would actually be the late 1950s. I saw Lenny Bruce and then went up to Los Angeles and from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. So that would have been the first trip and that would be probably around '57, '58. Now its become the entertainment capital of the world. We all know phenomenal and unique history of the city, and its metamorphosis. It's a miracle.
Would you ever consider re-locating the Playboy Mansion to Las Vegas?
No, but I think it [Hugh Hefner Sky Villa at the Palms] will be, to some extent, a second home.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has passed away at age 91https://t.co/NsRppRNDZ3 pic.twitter.com/SRbrMKmv3Z
— Las Vegas RJ (@reviewjournal) September 28, 2017
If you could invite anyone, living or dead, to a party at the Playboy Club in Las Vegas, who would you invite?
Marilyn Monroe probably first and foremost, probably Frank (Sinatra), and Elvis, and Sammy Davis who was a very good friend, and probably some of the
people I grew up admiring when I was a kid: Cary Grant, (Humphrey) Bogart, the people who had an impact on me when I was growing up.
Beyond the Palms resort, what do you love about Las Vegas?
Well, the fact that it never sleeps. It's party central. I was raised in a very typical, Midwestern, Methodist home with a lot of repression, and I think that for
me that was part of the reason, consciously and unconsciously, for launching Playboy. Playboy was devoted to a celebration of life — and I think that the party theme, the very notion of a good party, has always been my response to Puritan repression. It was not a coincidence that when I did my very first television show, "Playboy's Penthouse," in the 1960s in Chicago, the theme for it was a party. After those shows, we would go to the original Playboy Mansion and have a late night party. I think that what makes Vegas unique is the fact that the party never ends.
Well, except when you have to work.
(Laughing) Yes, but in my case my work and play are kind of connected.
You have the ideal life.
That's true.
If Vegas was a woman, would she be a blonde, redhead, brunette or raven-haired beauty?
At various times she would probably be any one of the above. I think there are moments when she is any of the three or four: A blonde in the afternoon by the pool and a raven-haired exotic beauty later in the evening.
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— Murray SawChuck (@MurraySawChuck) September 29, 2017
What's the secret to treating a lady right when you are in Las Vegas?
In any relationship it has to do with paying attention to what's going on. Don't be self-involved. I don't think that it's a good line that wins the heart of a woman. I think it is listening, paying attention to what's going on — and a good sense of humor helps.
And finally, tuxedo or smoking jacket?
Smoking jacket.
Smoking jacket, you didn't even have to think about that …
No (laughing).
Article originally ran in the Los Angeles Times (Sponsored by Vegas.com).


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This was long overdue. Like, three years overdue. But I finally watched it, and BOY do I not regret watching it. A Werewolf Boy was that heartwarming movie that everyone really needs to see at least once. It made me laugh like crazy and then cry buckets. People weren't kidding when they said to have a box of tissues around.
Summary (and there are spoilers)
The film follows Kim Soon Yi (Lee Young Ran as the older version, and Park Bo Young as the younger version) as she returns to Korea from the States to sell her old home. Park Bo Young also plays Soon Yi's granddaughter Eun Joo, just to emphasize the fact that these two generations are very much linked together.
We flashback to about 40 years prior on a dark and stormy night, where the previous owner goes into the barn and slowly unlocks a door. There's a lot of snarling behind this iron door, but we never get to see who or what is behind it because the owner gets a heart attack and dies. A few years later, Soon Yi's mother (Jang Young Nam) purchases it for her and her daughters because Soon Yi's lungs are quite frail. The doctor had recommended that she move to the countryside, away from the pollution of Seoul, and their father's business partner's son Ji Tae (Yoo Yeon Suk) helps them move. By "help" we mean he just oversees the older folk move heavy furniture and loudly proclaim that he helped pay for this house because he'll marry Soon Yi one day.
On the first night, Soon Yi hears weird things go bump at night, and she investigates the barn. The mysterious beast runs out at her, and she starts screaming, but can't see what it is. It's only the following morning when she's doing the laundry that she notices someone hiding in a lean-to near her house. Her mother lures the beast out, and it turns out to be a very dirty, very hungry werewolf-boy (Song Joong Ki). At first they don't know what to do with him, and Soon Yi is disgusted by his manners as he gobbles everything in sight. The government office won't take him in because he's too old to go to an orphanage, and reckon that he's one of the orphans from war that got lost. So the mother, bless her soul, decides to take him in and keep him around, naming him Chul Soo.
What ensues is a hilarious montage of random things Chul Soo does because he's a werewolf-boy. He falls asleep while getting his back scrubbed, he always wants whatever Soon Yi is eating, and he howls at the moon (making the mother run into his room and slap his back to shut him up). He runs around with Soon Yi's younger sister Soon Ja and the other neighborhood kids, Dong Suk and Dong Mi, and enjoys playing fetch with the baseball. Soon Yi is initially very irritated by him at first, but he helps her lift heavy boxes to unpack and she gratefully gives him corn. Because of her kind gesture, he realizes that she's a good person (not someone to fear), and immediately protects her when Ji Tae comes around grabbing her wrist and being aggressive.
Of course, Ji Tae hates Chul Soo because he doesn't like how Soon Yi is attached to him and how Chul Soo is stronger than him.
Soon Yi realizes that she can train Chul Soo using a dog owner's manual, and she reinforces good habits in him with pats on the head. A pat when he puts away the laundry, a pat when he brushes his teeth or ties his shoelaces, a pat when he eats like a normal person. Chul Soo realizes he likes these pats, and so it makes him love Soon Yi even more. And she cares for him more too, teaching him how to write and read and encouraging him to speak. But all happy things must end, because Ji Tae makes Chul Soo into enemy no. 1 for the small neighborhood, and plots to kill Chul Soo. It doesn't help that Chul Soo isn't a mere werewolf-boy, but actually turns into a werewolf.
Some Thoughts (and there are spoilers)
I can't emphasize more how heartwarming and emotional this movie is, and neither can the movie itself with its warm color tones and light music. The director's intent to make this movie a supernatural fairy-tale really comes through, because even with the supernatural aspect and the dark villains A Werewolf Boy maintains its innocence and whimsy. It's a romantic movie, but in the most platonic sense. You know that Soon Yi and Chul Soo care for each other deeply, and it's a love that transcends words and physicality. If the movie were one of a human and a real dog, it would probably still be as beautiful.
That's a lot of credit to the acting as well. Park Bo Young and Song Joong Ki are fantastic together, and it's a lot of credit to Song Joong Ki that he managed to encapsulate the spirit of an animal so well. They don't let the fact that Chul Soo is a human really come to the forefront; if they did you would sense more amorous feelings between the two. And yet there are none, because Song Joong Ki perfectly encapsulated the love and loyalty a dog would have for a good owner. There were many times when I thought of my own pet – except I have a cat, and cats are brattier. But I never thought for a moment that the movie should have a more amorous turn or that the two leads should kiss. Maybe Soon Yi could kiss him on the forehead, but that would be it. I give credit to the actors so much for portraying this perfectly innocent love, and to the director/writer Jo Sung Hee for guiding the path of the performance.
Another reason why Song Joong Ki is so great here is because he barely has a single line in the movie. Everything is so dependent on his breathing, posture, and facial reactions. You can tell exactly when he's afraid, hungry, happy, curious – even the exact moment when he realized that petting is a nice reward. One of my favorite scenes was how earnest he was and excited to play with the kids, but he would rather have Soon Yi around more. So when she doesn't move right away, he runs back to her, waits, and then follows after her to play. It's that simple protective kind of love that I really liked seeing, and everyone else also understood. It's why no one in his neighborhood can believe him as a villain, no matter what Ji Tae says, because they know that Chul Soo would never do any harm. He'd only attack when threatened; even when Ji Tae tries to manipulate Chul Soo he doesn't attack the neighbors. He makes a mess of their house, but he never actively harms them. Song Joong Ki also manages to keep his face as still and blank as possible, maintaining this look of wide-eyed curiosity about the world. It makes his micro-expressions that much more meaningful.
As for Yoo Yeon Suk, I can't believe he was such a sleazeball. He's so good at playing a villain that it's hard to see him as a good character (which are more of his recent drama roles). He actually sickened me every time he came on screen, even during the "making of" featurette, even though I know that he's just acting. That's how good he was. The only frustrating thing about his character was how insolent he was and how much power the town kind of gave him even though it never seemed warranted. He'd throw his weight and money around, and he'd order around even a military colonel (who also didn't act very much like a colonel). He's such a hoodlum that I wondered how he could get away with so much, and even overpower some guards so easily to access the barn where Chul Soo was locked up.
And finally Park Bo Young is perfection. I was introduced to her in Oh My Ghostess, but had I seen this one first I would not have been surprised by what she could do in that drama. The intensity she portrayed in the scene where Soon Yi and Chul Soo parted ways was so powerful I broke down crying. And this was after the movie made me bust a gut laughing at the hanbok-makeup scene. Everything was so simple, so raw in that scene. When she accidentally slaps him, and then apologizes, but forces herself to stop apologizing… or when she throws a small rock at him and gives him a tiny gash on his cheek that actually hurts her more than it hurts him… I couldn't stop the snot from running down my nose. It's one of the things that I appreciate about this drama – that the big moments are made simply and without too much grandiose music. Even when we see Chul Soo in his werewolf form leaping upon Ji Tae, there's no sound. We are forced to look and pay attention to only the visual, to see how mighty Chul Soo is, and to look up at him in awe.
The only complaint I have with the movie is the end. I knew they had to part ways, but I didn't like how they reunited. I didn't like that Chul Soo never aged. He's a werewolf, not a vampire, and don't give me that Twilight nonsense where werewolves can change how quickly they age at will. I wanted to see Chul Soo look a little older, a little more weary. But because he never aged, and because the reunion scene was bathed in a warm orange light, I actually thought that it was a dream sequence. I thought that the older Soon Yi had dreamed that he was still waiting for her and that he read to her. I know that there's evidence he really is alive waiting (the barn has all the paper and plants when she woke up, and the granddaughter saw him), but to me it felt so unfair to have him just sitting there, waiting for her. I know it would illustrate pure love perfectly if they really did meet, to show that love never fades, but it felt really unfair. So in my mind, that was a dream sequence.
All in all, it's such a good watch and I'm sad that I waited so long to see it. But better late than never is what I always say!
A Werewolf Boy will be available on DramaFever Friday, Sept. 4.
Verdict: 10/10


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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Learn to Hate your Wife
We talk a lot in Christian circles about how to love our wives, and rightly so. But I fear that we neglect another command of our Lord, which is that we must hate our wives. And I do not believe these are separate commands in tension, which we must learn to balance; I do not believe we can learn to love our wives until we learn to hate them first.
"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple." (Luke NKJ)
What is Jesus commanding us to do here exactly? A similar passage in Matthew 10:37 says it a little more gently: "He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me." (Matt. NKJ) Some interpreters reading the Luke passage simply explain it away with the Matthew passage; Jesus isn't telling us to actually hate our family members, but just to love them less than Jesus.
But those aren't the words that Luke uses. He quotes Jesus as saying "hate", and sound Biblical exegesis tells us that while Scripture certainly must interpret Scripture, we should not simply explain away one part of the Bible with another. The word "miseo" translated there "hate" is used by Luke in other places to describe the hatred that followers of Jesus would experience from the world (Luke ; ). Also in Luke we are called to choose between loving God and loving the world; Jesus tells us we will love one and "hate" the other. This is not a matter of loving one less than another; Jesus presents it as a choice.
This is also what I believe Jesus is telling us in Luke 14. We must choose. Following Christ always has costs; in Luke 14 Jesus goes on to tell us to count the cost of discipleship. I don't know a single serious Christian that hasn't lost relationships as a result of being a Christian. We are faced with a choice, many times in our lives- either we can have a good relationship with some loved one in our lives, or we can be faithful Christians, but we can't have both. The Christian should never be the one forcing this choice on others; being a Christian never means shunning unbelievers. But it is the unbeliever that forces the choice on us. Jesus tells us in many places, like Luke 6:22 and , that the world naturally detests the followers of Christ, and will pressure them to compromise their faith. Many in the world will only have a relationship with the Christian if the Christian softens or downplays or even denies aspects of his faith that the world finds repulsive. (Exhibit: Tim Tebow)
Where is the ultimate source of our happiness and satisfaction? In Christ, and only in Him. Family is a great blessing from God, but family can never provide for me what Christ provides for me. I am blessed to have a good family, but God may one day take that away from me. He can still provide for me and comfort me even without my family. And if I expect my wife or my parents or my children to be for me what only Christ can be, the ultimate source of joy, of significance, of contentment, in my life, then I will put a burden on my family that they can never bear. A great many problems in families come from just this error; a man comes to hate his wife because he expected her to satisfy his every desire, to give him full contentment, which she can never do.
This points us to the irony of the Christian life, an irony well expressed by Jesus' statement above. A man who loves his wife above all will ultimately come to hate her. But a man who learns to hate his wife for Christ's sake, to be willing to lose his wife, to recognize that his wife is a fallen sinner just like he is, that man will finally be able to truly love his wife as the Bible tells us. It is a paradox; only by hating my wife can I truly love her; whereas loving her above Christ or instead of Christ is the most hateful thing I can do to her. This is just what Jesus meant when He told us that "He who loves His life will lose it; He who loses his life for my sake will find it." Jesus' statement works just as well substituting any good thing there for the word "life".
Many have been lost to the faith because they could not bear to lose their loved ones. Many have contemplated Christianity but rejected it because they knew what their parents would say, what their spouses or children would say. Many who started out in the faith lost it when one of their loved ones abandoned the faith. To be Christ's disciple you have to be prepared for that. You have to be prepared to consign any one of your loved ones to the judgment of God, to reject them and forget about them and write them out of your life. Some of your loved ones will end up in hell. Can you bear that? Do you love them so much that you will follow them there?
I'm not advocating shunning. As long as our loved ones who reject the faith are willing to talk, willing to have a relationship, we should be willing as well. And some of them might be willing to have that relationship. But some of them won't be, and you never know which ones. So Jesus is telling us to be prepared; count the costs. You can bet that one day God's finger will be laid on the idol in your heart, and you will be asked what you are willing to lose for the sake of Christ.
So men, learn to hate your wife. Parents, learn to hate your children. Brothers, hate your sisters, and sisters your brothers. Be willing to lose all for Christ; look to nothing and nobody to be to you what only Christ can give to you. If you cannot do that, then you cannot be His disciple. If you cannot do that, you will lose your wife and children anyway; trying to hold back things from Christ just results in losing them and losing Christ.
But when you do that, when you are willing to lose all for Him, to despise all, to count it all as dung in comparison to Him, then Christ will give back to you far more than you were ever prepared to lose for Him. Only by pursuing Christ alone can you ultimately have good relationships with other people; just as only by pursuing Christ alone will you learn to truly enjoy food, nature, work, or any other good thing that God gives us. He gives us everything in Christ; rejecting Christ, we can have nothing.
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Thursday, March 07, 2013
Competing standards
I was at a discussion tonight regarding different religions, where similarities and differences between the leading figures of Judaism, Islam and Christianity and the way that each religions dealt with these figures. The speaker tried to show the way that founding religious leaders sometimes are mythologized, and the similar way the different religions did that. It was fairly standard relativistic stuff, but the speaker at the same time did make a pretty good attempt to talk truly about each of these religions and the real differences that exist. One lady in the audience asked why we focus so much on the differences. She said, "It's like we don't really want peace." The speaker answered somewhat inconclusively.
After the talk was over, the lady came up to me and my friend that was with me and in response to some things my friend had said about the illusion of neutrality, that everyone was coming from a particular perspective, made some comments about being a lot more sure of what she knew when she was younger than she did now that she was seventy. Then she said that we should check out the Unitarian church.
This made me think of the above comic, a perceptive look at what often happens when we try to simplify. The person who says that we all ought to join together with other religions and simply focus on what unites us rather than what divides us is actually creating a new religion and asking all of us to leave our old faiths and join this new one. The Unitarian lady was actually proselytizing, that which she so deplored when other religions engaged in it. She just proved my friend right- she was pretending to be saying, "It's dumb to fight over these things. Let's just forget what divides us and all just agree to get along." But what she was actually saying is, "My religion is right and yours are all wrong, and you should join my church." I don't blame her. That's what I think too. But it would be nice if we'd all just be up front about it.


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Sorry for the delay! If you started writing before I updated this letter, I look forward to seeing what you've come up with. But if not, here are my thoughts.
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
Push (2009)
Zombieland (2009)
Themes for this group: survival, doing amazing (or questionable) things to survive; the (upper and lower) limits of humanity; the world turned upside down.
I have a couple of gaps here: Pokemon was my first ever fandom, but I only know the games up through Ruby and Sapphire, and the anime up through Johto. If there's another area of canon you want to work with, great, but you may need to provide me with some helpful links in your author's notes. Similarly, I've read all the Hunger Games books, but I haven't seen Catching Fire the movie.
Several of these combinations are just "add more zombies" or "add more psychics" to other canons that are already ripe for them. (I mean, Pokemon has psychics, so, Push, and Cabin in the Woods has zombies, so, Zombieland.) And zombies and psychics can be great together. I also adore Pokemon stories in which the world is grittier and darker than the one we saw on the show; that could lend itself beautifully to a crossover with Cabin in the Woods or Hunger Games. Or: was the apocalypse that led to the creation of the Hunger Games society a zombie apocalypse, and might it occur again? Another idea: if the Hunger Games world has the psychics of Push, I bet they'd be part of the Capitol's elite military force. What do you think?
Confession time: the idea that tipped me over into signing up for this exchange was the desire for a combination of Hunger Games and Cabin in the Woods, especially if the same conspiracy underlies them both. So if you're tossing up several ideas, I would really love that one. If not? I WILL be happy with many, many things.
A lot of these worlds are very dark. I'd love a story about ordinary folk suddenly having to do crazy or terrible things to survive; I'd also love a story in which people cope with their crazy, horrible worlds by rising above and rebuilding. Black humour would be great too.
Would prefer not too much description of gore when it comes to any zombies, please, and please don't describe anyone's hands being hurt in loving detail.
Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Kingdom Hearts
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
Themes for this group: the stories we tell ourselves (true or false) about our own nature and that of the world; OR teamwork and found families and unexpected alliances.
Gaps: I have only played the first Kingdom Hearts game. I know a little about subsequent games from fandom osmosis, but it's probably better if you stick to first game ideas, sorry. I know a reasonably wide range of fairy tales, and I have all of the Andrew Lang books on my home bookshelf.
So: where I suggested a theme for request one of doing terrible things to survive, one thing that might unite some canons in request two is the stories we tell ourselves to justify our actions. What makes grey morality okay; what keeps us going when the going gets tough; where do we draw our lines in the sand? What makes characters pledge undying loyalty, and what makes them give up - or wake up? SHIELD struggles with questions of accountability and responsibility - so does Dollhouse, and you can even take this tack with the other canons, especially if you want to do a revisionist fairy tale in which maybe "villains" and "heroes" get switched around.
Two of my favourite fairy tales are Rapunzel and East of the Sun, West of the Moon, if you'd like to work with those specifically.
Dollhouse and SHIELD is possibly the most natural combination of this bunch. For a more specific suggestion, you could even make Amy Acker's character identical across canons.
Utena uses fairy tale ideas implicitly, but you could make the connection more explicit. Perhaps create another layer for the protagonists to wake from/ grow up from. (or: if crossing over Dollhouse and Utena, perhaps all of the characters are programmed Actives, and all of them are struggling to find a base or aggregate identity. Only, why would someone program them like that...?)
I realise some of these canons' combinations are... pretty cracky. Especially Agents of SHIELD and Kingdom Hearts, or Agents of SHIELD and Utena. (But there are parallels to be drawn between "princes" and people who want to protect the world from things they're not ready to know...) Crack is OK!
I prefer memory loss not to be treated in a humorous or very superficial way. No groundhog day stuff, and super-tropey amnesia fic doesn't work for me either. But it is okay as a plot point. After all, some of these canons require it.
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms
Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
Kingdom Hearts
Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
Push (2009)
Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena
Zombieland (2009)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV)
This is my grab bag request, combining all of my prompts from the other two. Basically, author, if you have an idea: go for it. I trust you.
More suggestions... hm. If Utena/Push, what if Akio and Anthy are both pushers? It brings a whole new level to the mind games they play. Cabin in the Woods/ Kingdom Hearts: the Halloweentown graveyard is extra creepy. Or: there's another Kingdom Hearts world that the team visit that is just plain wrong in some way? I feel that you could cross over Kingdom Hearts and Zombieland that way, and even use either set of protagonists. Columbus - or Wichita - with a Keyblade could be amazing.
And of course, SHIELD's technology would make the struggle in Zombieland a little more even. I feel SHIELD and Push also cross over reasonably well. Is "Division" actually part of SHIELD?
General thoughts: Another thing that attracted me to this exchange is, I feel, the way it lends itself to worldbuilding, which is something I love. I am really excited to imagine the bridges you will build between these very different worlds.
I am primarily a gen writer and reader, but you are welcome to write any combination of genders and sexualities, romances or other relationships (mentors, families, teams, ???), and any rating.
Original characters are most welcome.
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Day 5 - SugarPea Designs Sweet Sneaks
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Very creative and colorful!ReplyDelete
Cute card!ReplyDelete
Very cute card!ReplyDelete
Oh so adorable!!!ReplyDelete
I love this pretty honeycomb shape! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Nice card.ReplyDelete
Bee-utiful card. Perfect to play homage to our pollinators this spring season. Great release. CheersReplyDelete
love the teddy bear picnic!ReplyDelete
love the teddy bear picnic!ReplyDelete
Great card design with this bee theme.ReplyDelete
Awesome card! The bee hive design is just so fun ♥ReplyDelete
This is just so cool Kim.ReplyDelete
Cute! Just love those sweet little bees. And the honeycomb look is just perfect.ReplyDelete
Cute honey theme with the border and yellow!!ReplyDelete
Terrific design, this came out perfectly!ReplyDelete
Your card is super cute Kim. I love your work!ReplyDelete
Wonderful use of this new set!!ReplyDelete
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quelle bonne idée, c'est absolujment ravissant et très original!ReplyDelete
Hi Kim, love love love your designs with these new stamp sets. I can even see the white twisted on the chicken white die cut. These stamps are so precious! Thank you for all the inspiration.ReplyDeleteReplies
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the new sets are awesome! I love the honey comb die and the stamp of it for a background and of course the little bees! Just awesome!!!!ReplyDelete


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I've been talking the last few weeks about going for an elective ultrasound to find out the sex of this sweet baby. I really hadn't fully made up my mind as to when I would go, but I knew that all of the places around here allowed you to come as early as 14 weeks. I had thought about going sometime this week but I hadn't called for an appointment.
This morning I decided to go ahead and call and see when they had appointments available. I was shocked when they said they had one just a few hours later. I decided to just go for it!! I was a little nervous about how it would go but they provide a guarantee that if they can't determine the sex with confidence then they will allow you to come back at a later date.
Emerson and I arrived at 12:30 and just as we were checking in, Jesse messaged me that he was on Wifi. I didn't know if the service would be that great inside the ultrasound room, but we decided to go ahead and try to FaceTime once I got in there. Up until then we thought that we would just have the tech put it in an envelope so that we could find out together when he could call.
Right when we got in the room and she got me set up, Jesse called on Facetime. The tech immediately got everything going and asked if we were ready to find out what we were having. We didn't have a great connection and Jesse couldn't see the screen that well, but he could hear as she said, "Congratulations! It's a baby girl!" It was such a blessing that he was able to "be there."
After she showed us that it was indeed a girl, she took tons of 2d and 3d pictures. She said our little girl is weighing in at about 4 ounces. It's crazy that she is that tiny and we could still see everything so clearly! We saw her waving her arms, kicking her legs, and moving all around. It was awesome and so worth the money!
I've been saying for a while now that I was pretty sure that it was a girl. While we were traveling to Texas last month we were waiting in the airport in Las Vegas. Across from us sat a mother and her two daughters. They were blonde, fair-skinned, and probably around 10 and 13 years old. I watched them for a while and I just had this overwhelming feeling that I was looking at my life in about 10 years. It may sound crazy but I completely pictured myself sitting there with my two daughters. Since then I've been pretty adamant that it was a girl, so I wasn't really surprised when the tech said it's a girl.
We are so, so excited to be welcoming another baby girl into our family. I am just thrilled that Emerson is going to have a little sister to follow in her footsteps.


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I find it interesting how we cannot wait for our babies. When we know beforehand that we are in for this thing for 40weeks, why do we always expect them to come sooner? I have watched all my friends go through it, never expecting to find myself in the same place. And still, here I am, not even 40weeks, and so sad that she has not arrived yet. Why is this? What can we do to prevent it? I have tried so hard from the beginning to not place my hope on the Expected Due Date, and here I am expecting her not even ON the date, but BEFORE. Everyday I wait and every morning I am sad to start a new day without her. And can I just mention that she is nr 3, which means there are plenty of other little people keeping me busy which should create hesitation on my part to rush her!
Recently there has been so much research to prove the difference between just 38 and 39 weeks, that planned ceasers are now not done before 39weeks. That should mean that the difference between 39 and 40 is also huge.
I have the best ideas and reasons in the world why it would suit me if she should come on this date or that. Problem is, and this was my lesson once again, IT IS NOT ABOUT ME. How can I decide when a human being should be born? Who am i to think i know the number of her days? No no, I had to sit back again and say your will be done, not mine. Nancy you come when you're ready. I will be waiting.


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In late October, I lost all my Tinder matches after my account went "under review". My matches reported me for being ornery. It's difficult to get an account reopened after a review.
In my opinion, Tinder makes it too easy to report a profile.
The option to report pops up when a user un-matches another user. Also, a user can report a user while swiping without matching first.
I'll admit, I did send some obscene messages. What can I say, I don't like wasting time to drop panties.
My New Tinder Profile
I lost around 2000 matches. At first, it felt like a bummer, but it was actually a blessing in disguise. I needed to start working again, and my sexual addiction was taking up all my time.
Last month, I stayed in Bangkok and created a new Tinder profile.
It's not a process I want to do again. The funny thing is my second profile went under review after getting frisky again, but this time Tinder gave it back.
I think Tinder focuses on removing bots.
Here's a tip. Watch what you say to Asian girls, they are quick to report a user on Tinder. They are sweet in general, but some of them think they are the Tinder police.
Tinder Matches Galore in Bangkok!
After I created my new profile, it gave me a chance to see how many matches I could rack up in 24 hours.
The results were outstanding!
In 24 hours, I had 657 Tinder matches!
I didn't use any tricks.
I had my distance set to 4 miles and the age range between 18-32. My location was outside the center of the city. If I had been there, I probably could have done even better.
Thai girls are beautiful in general. They are usually slim and petite. A lot of my new matches were gorgeous Thai girls.
If I put in the work and went out on real dates, I could have scored some hot Thai women.
My priorities for the month were work and fitness over girls. I did score some easy sex including two 18-yr-olds. The sex was all free.
One night, a girl with massive tits came over and gave me head while I had an interview on Skype.
Conclusions on Using Tinder in Bangkok
Obviously, racking up Tinder matches in Bangkok is easy. The hard part is getting the top-tier girls to meet.
Thai girls are flakier than other nationalities in Asia. I like them a lot, but there are things I don't like about them too.
Tons of foreigners spoil them every day, which leads to more greed and the overrating effect.
The overrating effect is when girls put themselves on a pedestal. It's common in America. Tons of 5s who think they are 10s. It's much lesser in Bangkok, but it does exist.
I like to date the younger Thai girls. I found a nice, sweet 18-yr-old who lived close to me, and I met her around two times per week.
Keep an eye out for the ladyboys on Tinder! There are a ton of them.
I'd say maybe 50 of my 657 matches were ladyboys. I used a liker app and didn't look at every girl.
You should now have a good understanding of what it's like to use Tinder in Bangkok.
In a little over 48 hours, I reached over 1000 matches.
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Grab your current read, flip to a random page, share two teaser sentences, don't include spoilers.
The Real Prom Queens of Westfield High by Laurie Boyle Crompton
But wait. Did gorgeous-man just say- ? "Musical number?" I cry out. Kelly and Amy clearly share my horror.
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I picked up a new magazine a few days ago called "Natural Home and Garden." Most of the magazine was pretty good, and I did find a recipe I wanted to try in it for honey-roasted peanuts.
Hannah LOVES peanuts, peanut butter, honey-roasted peanuts, Reeses, peanut butter straight for the jar….you get the picture. The girl loves peanuts. Before our big diet change a year or so ago, she lived on a daily diet of peanut butter (yup, the regular old Jif kind too!) and Smuckers Jelly sandwiches.
We were at Sprouts this past weekend and they were having a bulk sale. I usually only make it to Sprouts about once a month or so for bulk items. Hannah usually begs for honey-roasted peanuts, (nicely!) to which I usually give in. But for some reason, on this particular trip, I decided to take a look at the ingredient list posted above the bulk bin. To my surprise, I was shocked on how much sugar was on the peanuts….no wonder she loved them so much!….and they were coated in "vegetable oil." I really wish she loved eating raw almonds as much as sugar-coated peanuts, but she's just not there yet.
Thankfully, the recipe from my magazine popped into my mind and I told Hannah I was going to make her "homemade honey-roasted peanuts." She was excited and jumped up with a "goody!" I went over to the raw peanut bin and started scooping.
Today I decided to try the honey-roasted peanuts. The recipe called for things like butter and sugar, so I modified the recipe, and here's what I came up with:
Honey-Roasted Peanuts
(adapted from Natural Home and Garden recipe)
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt (I use Real Salt)
- 1 pound shelled raw peanuts (which is appx. 2 cups)
- 1-2 tablespoons coconut/palm sugar
1. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and then grease. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. (note: do not forget the parchment paper! I am still soaking my pans from the mess it left me because I didn't use the paper!)
2. In a medium saucepan, heat honey, coconut oil, vanilla, and 1 teaspoon salt over medium-low heat.
3. Stir in peanuts, then pour them out into a single layer in the baking dish.
4. Roast peanuts for 15-20 minutes, or until golden, shaking the pan a few times to stir nuts. Remove from oven, stir to break up clumps, and let cool slightly.
5. Sprinkle on remaining salt and coconut sugar and toss to coat, then serve warm.
The peanuts turned out so great and yummy, I decided to try raw cashews. I think the cashews are my favorite! But Hannah still likes the peanuts the best. 😉


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NFI Announces Clam Committee Partnership with the National Science Foundation
Public Private Partnership Focuses on Sustainability through Science
April 17, 2013 Washington, DC The National Fisheries Institutes Clam Committee has announced a sustainability partnership with the National Science Foundation. As part of the partnership the Foundation has established a five year grant designed to help fund the new Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCeMFiS), a public-private effort to support research on sustainable fisheries in the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions. In creating SCeMFis the partners hope to help federal and state agencies generate the necessary scientific data to determine stock assessment and fishery health.
The National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950, promotes the progress of science; advances the national health, prosperity, and welfare. It is considered the leading research organization in the country.
The NFI Clam Committees own long history of sponsoring sustainability research makes this new partnership an exciting one. Clam Committee Chairman, Guy Simmons of Sea Watch International, believes the National Science Foundations support of SCeMFis is a testament to their valued research.
This additional support for SCeMFiS will add to the research available to managers and help ensure Americas clam fisheries remain healthy and robust. The fact that the NFI Clam Committee is involved in this important partnership with the National Science Foundation illustrates our members commitments to the long term health of the nations marine resources, said Simmons.
Initial areas of clam research will involve survey data quality, optimal survey clam density, and spawning stock biomass. The SCeMFiS work will be directed by highly regarded fisheries scientists, Dr. Eric Powell of the University of Southern Mississippi and Professor Roger Mann of William and Marys Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
Established more than 20 years ago, the NFI Clam Committee helps ensure sustainability by sponsoring independent research. Members include Atlantic Shellfish, Blount Fine Foods, Galilean Seafood, J H Miles & Company, Sea Watch International, and Snows Doxsee.


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Lace Floral Shoe Clips
Create unique accessories like T-shirts or floral shoe clip-ons (yes, shoe clip-ons) with our iron-on clip art and techniques.
Use our clip art, heat-transfer paper, and fabric to create these elegant floral shoe clips, perfect for dressing up a plain ensemble.
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Stylish Canvas Bags
The addition of a bold initial or vivid pattern can make a canvas bag newly stylish -- and unique to its owner.
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Picture Tote Bag
Don't hide your favorite photos in your wallet -- flaunt them on your tote bag!
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Paper Flower Shoe Clips
Dress up a pair of little girl's shoes with these easy-to-make (thanks to our clip art) paper-flower shoe clips. We offer rose or ranunculus to choose from.
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Silk Scarf
This one-of-a-kind silk scarf is the perfect gift for any fashionista.
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Lace Clutch
The lace that makes up this clutch is actually clip art and iron-on transfer paper. It's easy, elegant, and a great favor or gift.
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Apple and Number T-Shirts
Games at a family reunion wouldn't be complete without a starting lineup of shirts for everyone to wear during the water-balloon toss, three-legged race, and doughnut-eating contest. Begin with matching apple-motif tees and then stencil numbers on the back with fabric paint.
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Iron-On Tote with Petals
An iron-on initial in a woodsy typeface is an inspired (and easy) alternative to embroidery. Floral appliques naturally extend the theme.
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Craft Punch T-Shirt
Create your own iron-on shapes using your favorite craft punch and iron-transfer paper. The end result? Creativity gone wild on your or your kids' clothes.
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Tote Bag with Iron-On Blossoms
Cherry blossoms are famously short-lived, but on a sturdy satchel they can last long past the season.
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Iron-On Kids' Tote Bags
A cloth bag makes a natural canvas for young artists. This iron-on design spurs their self-expression.
White silhouettes give this tote bag a modern, screen-printed look.
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Personalized Tote Bag
What busy woman couldn't use a great bag? Just as personal as the gift of jewelry but a little less expected, a simple tote bearing a chic design is baggage any girl would want to carry around.
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Tote Bags with Iron-On Silhouettes
Sleek silhouettes turn a modest bag into an artful accessory.


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White Stripes: R.I.P.
When the current retro rock revival's obituary is finally read, there'll only be one band worth exhuming. The White Stripes.
Come again? What about The Strokes – didn't they patent the rebirth of post-punk in the new millennium? Sure, but only an ad agency, or in this case, the son of a model mogul, could sell a blancmange of the best bits of Lou Reed and Television as a 'fresh' brew. Right. What about The Killers, then? Sure, their latter day Springsteen fronting U2 makeover was a nifty sidestep, but the smell of Jim Steinman's Meatloaf schtick can't wipe away the fact that they're an VH1 Oh-so-80s covers band at heart. And they're from Vegas.
Interpol? Cadaverous good looks, snappy three-piece suits, tie clips and ashtrays on mic stands, cinematically existential lyrical obsessions…certainly retro-rock's most debonair dudes. Still Joy Division droids though. Kings of Leon? Southern rock howlers mapping the missing links between the The Band, The Allman Brothers and The Pixies is kinda cool, but they did shave and cut their hair when they moved to the major leagues, didn't they?
Okay. So what was so new and special about the White Stripes? Simple: in an era where style invariably trumped substance and where 'retro' often meant a memory span limited to 80s pastiche, the Stripes were a rarity. They were the one guitar band you could rely on to thoroughly exhume rock's rotting corpse to re-imagine its future. Jack (guitar, vocals) and Meg White (drums) were Americana's last rock 'n roll anthropologists. Over a career spanning 14 years and six albums they kicked out defiantly primitive guitar and drum autopsies of everything from garage rock, punk and metal to vintage blues, mariachi, cabaret lounge balladry, Americana and more.
No snappy bespoke suits or over tailored tunes for this odd coupling. In fact, no bass. Just guitar, vocals, drums. Which meant lean, lo-fi and you had to listen, before you boogied. Sure, Jack knew our post-MTV age meant we're all brainwashed to look before we actually listen. So he tossed us a bone. That arty red and white aesthetic design. A ruse. He just wanted to play the blues.
And then there was Meg. Couldn't ever really play drums, could she? Didn't have to be John Bonham though. Only had to make a rudimentary racket: sit on those snares, clatter the cymbals and ride that bass drum, girl! And only an ex-wife could glue her husband's obsessive compulsive blues punk rock racket together. Yep, in case you somehow missed that sleight of hand, Jack and Meg were once married, never brother-sister.
Which brings us back to Jack. A guitar hero O.B.S.E.S.S.E.D by the blues. He dedicated their self-titled debut to blues guitarist Son House. Son who, you ask? Exactly the kind of musical amnesia we're talking about. So what was a 22 year-old Detroit white boy born under a bad sign do when he wasn't working as an upholsterer? Study like a mother fucker. Pore over what fuelled Detroit garage rock gods, The Stooges raw power: the blues. Autopsy the DNA of what made The Birthday Party punk's most primal party animals. The blues!
Damn straight The White Stripes were a blues band. Just like Jack's heroes Led Zeppelin. And you know what, like Page and Plant, thank God The Stripes had the balls to call it quits, before they pissed all over their own legacy. As Jack and Meg put it on their 'goodbye' website post recently: "It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly to preserve What is beautiful and special about the band and have it stay that way."
Take a tour through their seminal retro rock six pack:
The White Stripes (1999)
Their basement country blues-punk protoype: Jack channels his obsession with de-and re-encoding Mississippi Delta bluesman Son House's lo-fi slide guitar demons into riff-heavy repetitions, wailing his way through wilfully no-fi nuggets ("Jimmy the Exploder", "Sugar Never Tasted So Good") while Meg somehow glues the whole garage rock shambles together with Shags-adelic bass drum perambulations, snapping snares and some explosive cymbal rides. The covers of Robert Johnson "Stop Breaking Down", Bob Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee", Louis Armstrong's "St. Infirmary Blues" are killer DIY deconstructions too.
iPod essential: the old time-y country blues of "Cannon" 3 stars
De Stijl (2000)
Ever wonder why Jack and Meg were so stylistically hung up on all things red and white? "The Style" bares all. Mainlining an abstract minimalism borrowed from Dutch design movement "De Stijl" (the album's dedicated to furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld as well as Georgia bluesman Blind Willie McTell), Jack's DIY drive hits pay dirt on this lo-fi classic recorded on 8-track analogue tape in his lounge. While a primal scream like "Judge Me Tender" testifies to the blues method in such punk madness, there's a whole lotta art rock love for Led Zep, Pink Floyd and The Who beneath these quirky wails about domestic life that segues between surreal indie pop ("You're Pretty Good Looking"), cabaret-kissed piano ballads ("Apple Blossom") and more.
iPod essential: a street busker's no-fi cover of Son House's "Death Letter". 4 stars
White Blood Cells (2001)
An album as bipolar as their relationship: Jack keeps the ladies lubricated with his riff-swollen, panty-moistening Howlin Wolf wail. Meanwhile Meg finally gets to rock out with her frock out on this 'nothing to prove' cocktail of delightfully spastic tantric indie rockers ("Little Room"), alt. country assignations about undying love "(Hotel Yorba") and conceptual conversations with Orson Welles' Citizen Kane ("The Union Forever"). Yep, it's that good. Lean 'n mean garage rock may still have been the method here, but here was a whole lot more to the band's evolving white blues madness than simple primitive pastiche.
iPod essential: amphetamine garage-punk call onto the dance floor "Fell in Love With a Girl". 4 stars
Elephant (2003)
Could Jack and Meg survive the major label move? No question. "No computers were used during the writing, recording, mixing or mastering of this record," challenged the album's liner notes. They weren't kidding. Self-produced by Jack with pre-70s vintage analogue equipment, including a duct-taped 8 track tape machine, Elephant is a retro-rock beast that rips the guts out of Blind Willie McTell's arcane folk blues ("Ball and Biscuit"), The Stooges' primeval garage punk blues ("Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine"), Captain Beefheart's apocalyptic Americana and even Burt Bacharach's lounge balladry ("I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself") by pushing the sonic envelope.
iPod essential: Grammy-winning rock anthems have seldom sounded as dirty as "Seven Nation Army". 5 stars
Get Behind Me Satan (2005)
The Americana punk-rock primitivists pushed the anthropological envelope even further on this unabashedly experimental, unapologetically arty cocktail of disco-metal and marimba pop exotica ("Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)"). "This albums is an exploration of…the ideal of truth" said jack when it was released. Truth is, in many ways it's Jack and Meg's White album: with the couple complementing their punk-blues blueprint with unplugged experiments in New Orleans swamp rock ("The Nurse") while trading in their signature riff-heavy solos for some loose-limbed rhythmic calls onto the dancefloor ("My Doorbell")
iPod essential: Deep Purple goes Daft Punk on "Blue Orchid" 5 stars
Icky Thump (2007)
After the experimental 'art rock' excesses of Satan, Jack and Meg went back to garage blues-punk-basics. Trawling through those Americana, blues and folk rock bargain bins, the Stripes went in search of…no, nothing as obvious as rock's Rosetta Stone, just some darn essential knick-knacks tossed out in rock's jumble sale. Whether it's unearthing the hand-carved cock rock chords that Slash once used to give Guns 'n Roses their stadium rock balls ("Icky Thump"), resurrecting Springsteen's Born To Run as a torch song ("You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)") or imagining Bowie wondering who the fuck Dylan would've been if Jimmy Page had convinced him that the blues, not folk was where rock was at ("300mph Torrential Outpour Blues"), you'll struggle to find a band sounding this bizarre, yet believable anywhere else in modern rock.
iPod essential: the primal pulp metal stomp of "Cream Soda". 5 stars


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The Council has adopted an expenses policy and a reserves policy.
The Finance Committee is chaired by Cllr. John Hodges and meets twice a year. The Clerk prepares monthly financial reports for the Council and all expenditure is approved at Parish Council Meetings. A forecast is prepared each year and forms the basis upon which the Precept is determined and agreed by the Council. The Precept for 2017/18 will be £ 138,000.
This equates to £44.84 for each Band D household in the parish.
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